Sphere of Influence. In iAssembloids, microglia (red) form projections (white arrows), while astrocytes (green) assume star shapes typically found in the brain. [Courtesy of Kampmann et al., 2025.] ...

The Amyloid—Tangle Connection. Aβ aggregates (green) hyper-excite neurons in tau epicenters and connected regions, strengthening that connectivity. This pushes tau propagation from one region to ...

EBP1 is low in Alzheimer’s disease brains, hinting at human relevance. “Our study suggests that … preservation of functional EBP1 could be a therapeutic strategy for AD,” the authors noted. The ...

Lactylation, a recently identified post-translational modification, has emerged as important for immune regulation, tissue repair, cancer cell metabolism, and now, potentially, Alzheimer’s disease. In ...

Could inhaling xenon gas help fight Alzheimer’s disease? In the January 15 Science Translational Medicine, scientists led by Oleg Butovsky at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, and David Holtzman ...

Atlas Overview. A survey of regulatory RNA used two cohorts (A), six brain regions (B), and four AD traits (D) to examine four types of RNA (C), turning up more than 25,000 differences between AD and ...

Missense mutations that derail SORL1 trafficking cause AD. Other variants shift AD risk in East Asians and Europeans. SORL1 dysfunction messes with endosomes in neurons, and with lysosomes in ...

Some researchers believe the brain makes Aβ to help fight bacterial and fungal invaders. Now comes evidence that p-tau may take on a similar role against viruses. In the January 2 Cell Reports, ...

For nearly a century, scientists have been trying to understand why many animals live longer, healthier lives when they have less to eat. Now, work led by Sheng-Cai Lin, Chen-Song Zhang, and Xianming ...